Anyone out there still read books?

[Peanuts]

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

The Crucible - Arthur Miller

Those too. I also love the classics. I have to admit, I powered through Gone with the Wind in about two days, and right now, I am reading quite a few biographies and historical fiction. Unfortunately, I can't even make a list, I love so many, but I couldn't tell you there names. I can only ever remember their story lines.

 

[clarinetJWD]

Anything Star Wars

You have no idea how much of my life I spent reading Star Wars books

Oh, yeah, and I forgot about these. THanks for reminding me
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (though it's not my favorite...)
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

Jon, if you like Great Expectations, give Poisonwood Bible a try. It's another character based book, with an excellent story as well.

 

[JohnMF]

i read the Alchemist by Paulo Coalo (sp?) recently and thought it was a nice story if a little short.

Just finished Perfume by Patrick Suskind, which is abit weird but brilliant story and beautifully wrote.

I still think The Godfather by Mario Puzo is classic

Love 1984, but could never get more that halfway through Catch 22 without losing interest, and ive tried several times

... and, erm, and i must admit i read Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNabb and enjoyed it!! *Hangs head in shame and embarrasment*

 

[anicole]

OH COME ON ... am I the only person that will admit to reading pure trash?

:shock:

I love Nora Roberts ...
I read the Blaze series of Harlequin (lots of steam ... can't leave that one lying around for the impressionable kids to notice)

Those are my 'forget about the laundry and dishes ... I gotta check out for a while' stress fixers.

Now, I have read several classics: Pride & Prej, Wuthering Heights, 1984, To Kill A Mockingbird (not just in high school ... re-read as an adult and enjoyed them more), Started a Tale of Two Cities ... still working on that one, the usual Nicholas Sparks stuff, Tom Clancy stuff, and John Grisham ... Robin Cook ... you get the idea.

I know I'm not the only trash reader ... come on ... fess up ... :er:

 

[JonMikal]

For JonMikal!

Seeing as though you're only litterary stimulation can be kids books - try these ones out by Jeannie Baker... http://www.jeanniebaker.com/ She's an amazing collage artist chikky who does these amazing kids books.

thanks Vicky. you know her personally?

 

[ShutteredEye]

Currently reading 1984, and I hate to disappoint you, but I can barely read through a few chapters at a time :|

But Charles Dickens is a definite favourite, but once again, not Tale of Two Cities. Nicholas Nickleby I prefer, as well as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

I will get an official list made up later

I'm reading through Jane Austen's stuff right now, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, etc. With the movie for Sense and Sensibility coming out soon, I thought I'd give her a reread before the movie taints me. :lmao:

 

[Meysha]

No unfortunately I don't. I think she does come from around here though. I could be completely wrong but.

I've always loved her books and I used to just look at them for so long when I was little - and even now! It's amazing how she does those collages - and they're roughly life size in the books.

 

[Alison]

I know I'm not the only trash reader ... come on ... fess up ... :er:

I'm with you

While I've read many "classics" lately it's been more of the following:

-Harlan Coben
-Jennifer Weiner
-Jodi Picoult
-Patricia Cornwell
-Robin Cook

Currently on my reading list are: The Essential Drucker (for a business class), Human Relations (another textbook) and The Birth Book by William and Martha Sears

 

[Alison]

...or childrens books :mrgreen:

We have bookshelves full of these! My nearly 6 year old can read now and will spend a good amount of time reading to his brother. It's nice to sit back and be read to for a change

 

[aprilraven]

OH COME ON ... am I the only person that will admit to reading pure trash?

:shock:

I know I'm not the only trash reader ... come on ... fess up ... :er:

i'm so with you my cuz....!!! boom boom! :mrgreen:

i got your trash stuff...everything i read is dark..and fang-ish...( sounds like most of my relationships!!! )

except someone mentioned nevil.....i loved lucifers hammer...killer book..and i tend to read survival stuff...( not like vote you off the island... i mean live or die by the seat of your pants kinda stuff...)

some true crimes and psychology thrillers... ( love getting into the minds of criminals...see where i am going wrong... )

 

[ShutteredEye]

i'm so with you my cuz....!!! boom boom! :mrgreen:

i got your trash stuff...everything i read is dark..and fang-ish...( sounds like most of my relationships!!! )

except someone mentioned nevil.....i loved lucifers hammer...killer book..and i tend to read survival stuff...( not like vote you off the island... i mean live or die by the seat of your pants kinda stuff...)

some true crimes and psychology thrillers... ( love getting into the minds of criminals...see where i am going wrong... )

aprilraven: you're so bad....but not in a bad way. :lmao:

 

[aprilraven]

mountainlander... your such a sweet talker!!!

 

[KevinR]

I try to read everyday. Some favorites.

All the Pretty Horses-Cormac McCarthey
For Whom the Bell Tolls-Hemmingway
Rabbit Run-John Updike
Portnoys Complaint-Philip Roth
Plain Song-Kent Harouf
Empire Falls-Richard Russo
The Song of Fire and Ice series from George R. R. Martin

 

[anicole]

aprilraven: you're so bad....but not in a bad way. :lmao:

OH YES SHE IS!!! :mrgreen:

 

[mygrain]

Comic books!